Paul Eggert wrote: > Mart Somermaa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Why not use an upper-case letter? We have plenty of those left. >> > > There are a lot of different ways to sort, and we'll burn through > the letters fairly quickly. Out of the 52 (2x26 for lower- and uppercase English alphabet letters) option letters, only 18 are taken. There are 34 -- about twice as much -- left.
$ sort --help | egrep '^\W+-\w,' | wc -l 18 > If we used a single letter, it should > probably be -h for df -h and -H for df -H, for sanity's sake. > As I already explained, the current implementation behaves correctly with *both* SI and powers-of-1024 input, so there is no need for two option letters. > But I'd still prefer a scheme that doesn't require a single letter. > > How about something like "sort -k 3--ignore-case,--ignore-leading-blanks"? > Then you could get the effect that you want with "sort -k 3--si". > Pardon me, but it's ugly, counterintuitive and cumbersome. You haven't convinced me in the inadequateness of the patch, but as I respect the work you have done for coreutils, I'll just quit the discussion :) . _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
